Switching

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So I have been reading 1984, but I just can not seem to get into the book for the life of me. It's not that interesting or the type of book i'm interested in. So i'm switching to Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen. Some of you may have seen the movie, but i haven't. This book is about how these sisters who wont get married. Their mom is trying everything to find them a husband, but Elizabeth Bennet, the main character, is doing everything she can to find something wrong with every guy she meets. I'm kind of excited to read this book, because it sounds like something I would love to read. I will keep updates on how its going.

Rustam & Suhrab

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This week I really didn't have that much time to read with so many things going on. So I'll be posting about what we read in class this week. We read a short story called Rustam and Suhrab. It was an older story about a father and son. In the beginning it starts off as Suhrab wants to find his father, so he goes into this battle, just him and Rustam. Suhrab thinks this may be his father so he tries to get Rustam to not want to fight with him but Rustam wasn't about to have that so they started to fight. Suhrab was winning and just about to kill Rustam. Just before Rustam said, you can't take ones head until you've had them to the ground twice, but this wasn't true. Shurab lets him go believing what he had said. The next day they fought again. This time Rustam gets Shurab and stabs him. Suhrab tells Rustam he has this Jewel that his mother gave to him and she had said that it belongs to his father. Rustam then opens his jacket and there the jewel was and it was Rustam's from long ago. Rustam killed his own son. He sat there and just held him and cried. While were were read this we talked about irony and how Suhrab tried to get his father not to fight and Rustam wouldnt have it. I thought that this story was really good and that people should really read it. It has a lot of metaphors and we talked about that too.